An assessment of inbreeding in Asian wild horse (Equus przewalskii Poliakov 1881) populations using DNA fingerprinting

Archiv fur Tierzucht

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 589-596

  Pitra, Christian ^a   Curson, Alistair ^b   Nürnberg, Peter ^c   Krawczak, Michael ^d   Brown, Steve ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; Horse breeding; Inbreeding testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030522766     PISSN: 00039438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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